Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colopy and his wife Loretta joined the center in the late 1940s, overwhelmed by Feeney's zeal and fervor. Married in 1949, they had five children by 1954. Then Feeney, gradually growing more dogmatic and rigorous as his suspicions of society deepened, decreed that the Slaves were to take vows of celibacy. All children born to his followers live apart from their parents, and Feeney is in sole charge of their education. Colopy testified that once one of his children asked him: "Mister, are you my father...
...whitest elephant. For all that, no beauty contests were permitted during his rule, and as a result, his country had not named a Miss Thailand in ten years. The reason was simple: before he took power, Field Marshal Sarit had pursued beauty-contest winners with the same zeal he later applied to Communists. Embarrassed by Sarit's extraterritorial demands, the government simply banned the contests, and when Sarit seized government control through a military coup in 1957, he decided it would look better if the ban stayed in force. This did not keep him from personally conducting a kind...
COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers. Looking back on his earnest years at Columbia and the ideologies that shaped his life, Chambers shows warmth and detachment missing from Witness. In particular, the intellectual zeal of the '30s, which demanded that an idea become conviction and that conviction turn into action, comes alive through Chambers' reconsideration of his motives and acts...
COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers Looking back on his earnest years at Columbia, his falling out with the Communist party and with the ideologies that shaped his life, Chambers shows warmth and detachment missing from Witness. In particular, the intellectual zeal of the thirties, which demanded that an idea become conviction and that conviction turn into action, comes alive through Chambers' reconsideration of his motives and acts...
Glow of Happiness. Typically, Waugh "follows the old fashion" of autobiography and begins not with himself but his ancestors. With warmth, wit and antiquarian zeal he traces them through four generations of the solid, comfortably moneyed professional class that saw the flowering of the British Empire. Waugh himself was born near London in 1903, given the name Evelyn "from a whim of my mother's. I have never liked the name." He borrows an anecdote from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from...